Man that was intense. After completely screwing up my quali, I had two great races. Oddly enough, I was once again much slower down the front straight than everyone else.
This track might be a PITA, but it was well worth the work it took to get the Mosler somewhat stable around here. This certainly isn't a track you can just jump into and do a quick race.
Race1: Got a great start from tenth on the grid and was up to 5th by the end of lap one. I was now behind Glenn and couldn't find a way past for the life of me. I just kept the pressure on and after several laps of some very close racing. I followed Glenn closely and was lucky to get a tow past Tyler into T1 from him. Glenn eventually made a small mistake and ran it wide coming out of the tight hairpin allowing me to slip past. This put me in 2nd place. Gave chase to Yves and closed the gap from about 6 to 4 seconds, but as I started to struggle for grip I made a few mistakes and lost a lot of ground on him. With just a couple of laps to go there was no way I would catch Yves now and just settle down and focused on just bringing the car home in one piece.
Race2: Got an average start and found myself behind Glenn once more. However, coming into T2 Glenn slowed a bit more than I expected and I slipped through underneath him. Pretty cool pass, if I might say so myself. Even I was surprised. lol. I run a different line into T2 than most others. Most of you guys were keeping to a slightly wider line, while I was treating it more as a double apex meaning I would hold it tight coming into T2 then drift wide on the brakes only to apex again where the double while line was on the inside. Any ways... I soon found myself behind Jan Somers and much like in race 1 with Glenn, I could not find a way past. Even with the slip stream, I was down on speed on straight to his Spyker. Eventually Eric N bump drafted me and we both went by Jan down the straight. Thanks Eirc N. Clear of Jan, I now set my sights on Sam M ahead. I caught up quickly and made the pass for second as Sam had an off. Tyler was just 2.5 seconds a head and I was closing in him a few tenths per lap, but as grip levels started to drop I once again made a mistake and a short off cost me second as Eric N slipped through. With about 6 or 7 laps remaining I figured I would try to bump draft Eric N in order to catch Tyler a quicker, but even with the draft, I was losing one to two tenths to Eric N down the straight. My car was now starting to get more and more twitchy resulting in small mistakes. The gap to Eric N grew to about 2 seconds at one point. I tried to catch him one last time with three to go and set my fastest race lap with a 37.7. But in the end it was not enough and I came up a about 5 tenths short, crossing the line in 3rd.
Some great racing tonight guys and congrats to Tyler and Yves for their wins.
